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Company shall also have power to lease, purchase
or make and equip and maintain any rail roads,
tram roads, and wharves, within the limits of Alle-
gany County, and also for the purposes above men-
tioned, and shall have power to make such by-
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laws, rules and regulations as may be necessary;
Provided, they be not repugnant to any law of this
State, or of the United States.
Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That for the purpose
of enabling said Company to transport the produce
of their mines and manufactories to market, the
said corporation shall be and is hereby invested
with all and singular the rights, profits, powers,
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Regulations.
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authorities, immunities and advantages for the sur-
veying, locating and constructing, equipping and
maintaining a railroad or railroads and wharf or
wharves, with the necessary vehicles and appurte-
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Make and
equip railr'ds
and wharves.
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nances, from their mines or works, to connect at
any convenient point or points with other existing
railroads in Allegany County, and with the Chesa-
peake and Ohio Canal at Cumberland, which by
the Act, and more particularly the fifteenth Sec-
tion thereof, incorporating the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company, and its several Supplements,
were for the lawful purposes of said Company, and
the benefits of its corporators given, granted,
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May connect.
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authorized and secured to the said Company, and
to the President and Directors thereof, respec-
tively, as fully and perfectly as if the same Act
were herein repeated; and the said corporation
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Power of Of-
ficers.
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shall transport on its said railroad or roads, which
may be constructed under the provision of this
Act, and also on any railroad or tramroads, it may
lease or purchase, as hereinbefore authorized, all
persons and property at the same rates of tolls and
prices of transportation as the Cumberland and
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, are, or shall be
by law allowed to charge and receive, and shall be
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May transport
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entitled to charge for wharfage over any wharf or
wharves leased, held or built by it, such charges
as it may agree upon with persons using the same.
Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That the capital
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Charge wharf,
age.
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stock of said Company shall be two millions of
dollars, which the President and Directors of said
corporation may increase to five millions of dollars,
or diminish to any amount it may deem expedient,
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Capital stock.
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